Cookie Policy

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your computer, tablet or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task

recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested

measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast

Our use of cookies:

Cookies to enhance your experience

We set a session cookie that allows us to maintain the state of your visit whilst viewing our web site. This may include a user preference or current progress in a series of steps.

Name

Typical content

Expiry

PHPSESSID

randomly generated alphanumeric identifier

when user exits browser

Cookies for improving service

Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast.

Name

Typical content

Expiry

_utma

randomly generated number

2 years

_utmb

randomly generated number

30 minutes

_utmc

randomly generated number

when user exits browser

_utmz

randomly generated number + info on how the site was reached (e.g. directly or via a link, organic search or paid search)

6 month

For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google website

Cookies for registering your vessel

We set a cookie that remembers your progress when registering your vessel on our web site so that you can resume the registration process on subsequent visits.

Name

Typical content

Expiry

ships_progress

calculated alphanumeric hash

1 year

Accessibility

NHS-UK strives to make its services accessible and usable for all users. This website has features that allow its users to find the information they need in the way they find easiest.

This website has been built to comply with the World Wide Web Consortiums WCAG A standard and has the following features:

General

This site is built using XHTML and cascading style sheets. This creates a fast loading website that is accessible to screen readers and is usable in most browsers, including older browsers and browsers available on non-Windows systems.

Access Keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing access keys

0 - Accessibility

1 - Home page

2 - Skip navigation

3 - Sitemap

4 - Search

The key combination for these access keys depends on your web browser.

We offer a text only version of our site with options to change foreground and background colours. It provides a faster browsing experience for those using mobile devices or on slow connections. The site can be read whatever size and type of screen you use. The text only version is exactly the same site without the images and layout. It is not a separate site. This guarantees that the information will always be exactly the same no matter how it is viewed. To change to text only, click the link at the top of the page.

Images and design

All images have ALT tags. Where appropriate, ALT tags provide screen reader users and those with images turned off with a description of the content of the picture.

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Copyright in these images rests with National Historic Ships UK and the vessels' owners.
Pictures must not be reproduced without the permission of National Historic Ships UK or of the owners.
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We will be launching a refreshed website in March.
Unfortunately this means that we won’t be able to make any updates to
our website until this time. If you would like to register a vessel,
update your details or apply for our flagship award before March,
please contact us at info@nationalhistoricships.org.uk or on 02083128558